About James W. Cherry
Lived 1872 – 1949 (aged 76–77). James W. Cherry was a judge.
James William Cherry (April 5, 1872 – March 23, 1949) was a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1923 to 1933, and was chief justice from 1929 to 1933.
Early life, education, and career Born on a farm in Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois, Cherry studied law in Kansas under the supervision of his father, who was a lawyer and a judge. and then moved to Utah with his parents in 1892. He moved to Chandler, Arizona in 1940, and then to Mesa, Arizona in 1942.
Cherry died in his home in Mesa at the age of 76, from a heart ailment, following an asthmatic attack.
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